[SOLVED] Slow Download Speed with Access Point

[Omerkoksur]

Greetings everyone!

I have an odd situation with my ap and wanted to get your opinion.

I have 200mbit down speed in my modem, and has a cable from my modem to the edge part of my home. When i connect through this cable i get 200mbit down speed. But when i plug this cable to my Zxyel AP, i get 100mbit down speed even though i use cable..

Why AP is decreasing my down speed by half???

 

[SamirD]

Sounds like you have a 100Mbps port on the AP.

 

[kanewolf]

Greetings everyone!

I have an odd situation with my ap and wanted to get your opinion.

I have 200mbit down speed in my modem, and has a cable from my modem to the edge part of my home. When i connect through this cable i get 200mbit down speed. But when i plug this cable to my Zxyel AP, i get 100mbit down speed even though i use cable..

Why AP is decreasing my down speed by half???

What is the model of the Zyxel ?

 

[Omerkoksur]

Sounds like you have a 100Mbps port on the AP.

Hmm, interesting, let me try each port then. Its model is WAP3205 v3

 

[kanewolf]

Yep, that N300 AP has 100mbit wired ports.

https://www.zyxel.com/au/en/products_services/Wireless-N300-Access-Point-WAP3205-v3/specifications
"LAN: Five 10/100 Mbps Ethernet RJ-45 ports"

 

[Omerkoksur]

Yep, that N300 AP has 100mbit wired ports.

https://www.zyxel.com/au/en/products_services/Wireless-N300-Access-Point-WAP3205-v3/specifications
"LAN: Five 10/100 Mbps Ethernet RJ-45 ports"

I really appreciate that!

Well, is there any possible reason for why i get 70mbits despite AP supports 300mbits? There is not so much option in the inferface...

 

[Omerkoksur]

I really appreciate that!

Well, is there any possible reason for why i get 70mbits despite AP supports 300mbits? There is not so much option in the inferface...

Sorry for not indicating, my question here was for Wifi connection speed.

 

[bill001g]

70mbps is a different question than if you were limited by 100mbps.

The 300 so called speed number is the fairly standard lie you see being told. It is not actually a speed it represents the data encoding method used. It is some theoretical things that assume invalid condition like device only need to receive but not transmit. It also ignore a lot of the overhead in the data transfer.

70mbps on a wifi connection like yours is fairly common, it is actually a bit higher than many people get. it depends a lot on your house and things like how far from the router you are.

To get faster wifi speeds you are going to have to use both a AP and end devices that can run on 5G radio band. Note even these tell the "number" lie. You might get 300mbps when the router has a number of say 1300 or 1700 on just the 5g radio band so even these are only a tiny fraction of the numbers you see on the box.

 

[kanewolf]

I really appreciate that!

Well, is there any possible reason for why i get 70mbits despite AP supports 300mbits? There is not so much option in the inferface...

70Mbit is what I would expect. 2.4Ghz N WIFI will typically have a link rate (the rate shown in Windows) of 144Mbit. WIFI is half-duplex, that means that a device can either transmit OR listen but not both at the same time. So the 144Mbit link rate is cut in half. Result is 70Mbit.
If you want higher performance buy better hardware. You can get a used Asus RT-N56U router on E-Bay for $20. It has gigabit ports, dual bands and software that lets you toggle it to an AP with one click. A step up from that is the RT-AC68U.

 

[SamirD]

Well, is there any possible reason for why i get 70mbits despite AP supports 300mbits?

Because that spec is pretty much a lie for all practical purposes--if the ethernet ports are limited to 100Mbps, how in the world would 300Mbps even possible? Well the answer is, it is not possible. The 300Mbs refers to the technical link possible between a wifi client and the AP, but since you'll never get more than 100Mbps moving between anything, it's just marketing fluff.

And now you understand why on modern gigabit ethernet based routers, any number above 1000Mbps is also just the same fluff. Same lie, different day...